From O Say Can You See: Stories from the National Museum of American History by Alexandra Piper: A civil rights protest often invokes the vivid images of sit-ins, boycotts, and marches, but the fight for racial equality took many different… Read More ›
Segregation
The untold story of ordinary black southerners’ litigation during the Jim Crow era
From OUP Blog by Melissa Milewski author of Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights: In 1868 North Carolina, Henry Buie’s former master sought to take his mule away… Read More ›
Using Poor Laws to Regulate Race in Providence in the 1820s
From Process: A blog for American History by Gabriel Loicono In 1825, members of the town council of Providence, Rhode Island, made a public—and unusual—complaint. They took to the newspapers to complain about how much work they had to do…. Read More ›